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[Tobias Pankrath]

> It's because the compiler doesn't understand assembly code. It 
> has no
> knowledge of what it actually does, and as a result, just 
> treats it as a
> black box.

But this is not set in stone. If I teach a compiler how to 
optimize intrinsics, can't I teach him to understand and optimize 
a (maybe small) subset of assembler, too? This must happen in the 
backend anyway, since intrinsics are platform-dependent, no?